Lesson 1
Becoming More Connected, Compassionate And Considered
In this, the first module there is an exercise that will help you to pay attention to your body and the location and quality of the feelings it holds. This is key to work you will do later in the course when you will be supported to explore these feelings and begin to uncover and connect with the emotional pain at the root of them: your unconscious patterns, traumas and unexamined fears. you will then be taught how to reconcile, reframe and release them, freeing yourself from the influence they habitually have on you.
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Lesson 2
Creating Healthier Relationships
Thank heavens for relationships. Apart, of course, from the joy they can bring - they are essential for learning about ourselves. Life would be so easy if we did not have people and pets to challenge us, but we can learn to welcome the challenges. When we feel irritated, scared, ashamed, disempowered, out of control or judgy we can welcome the emotional discomfort as an opportunity to explore how and why we are feeling this - what has caused this reaction and then employ a tool to bring ourselves back to presence.
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Lesson 3
Practising Conscious Communication
Our unconscious programmes affect how we communicate with people and keep us defensive and separate. We may take a deep breath and think we are sounding reasonable and kind, but however hard we try to cover it up, if underneath we are feeling frustrated or nervous or judgy or pitying it will be conveyed.
Once we have recognised and released the unconscious 'triggers' that make us defensive we can frame our responses in a way that builds connection, trust and understanding. This module teaches you how.
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Lesson 4
Transforming Self-Judgements To Self-Acceptance And Self-Love
Much as we might will things to change: ourselves, our relationships, other people, the world; there is very little that we can change by willing it, by effort or by force. Our best hope and our greatest power is in how we respond to it. If we meet anger with love, fear with love, grief with love, judgment with love we give it the potential to change.
When we judge ourselves inadequate in some way we will react defensively, whereas if we are accepting of ourselves we have no need to do this and we can respond consciously and with love.
In this lesson you will learn an exercise that will identify and positively transform your self-judgements.
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Lesson 5
The Emotional Release Technique
Most of us are really bad at expressing our emotions. We are taught from young that it is not ok to be angry and we believe that outspillings of grief will make those around us really uncomfortable so we do our best to put a lid on it and show a calm and composed face to the world.
We tell everyone we are OK and tend to bat away anyone that we sense may touch on our emotions and make us break down or explode.
The more we bottle emotions the more the pressure rises and the more we fear releasing them believing that the power of them will be uncontrollable or too painful to endure.
This is such a habit! We cut ourselves off from feeling. Sometimes to such an extent that we lose touch with our bodies and can no longer hear what they are trying to communicate to us.
But often others can sense what we ourselves are denying! They can see it in the subtle way we carry our shoulders or clench our jaw and they unconsciously feel it and it affects how they relate to us.
This lesson includes a teaching meditation and a powerful exercise for quickly releasing pent up emotions and leaving you feeling a sense of inner peace. Once here you can communicate more compassionately and effectively..
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Lesson 6
Finding Peace Of Mind
Our intellect is an incredible thing. It is creative, it is rational and, collectively, it has created the material advances our civilisation has enjoyed for the past 300 years.
But it also drives us mad!
It likes to be in control. It would like to be in control of our past – somehow fixing all the things we regret so they no longer trouble us, and be able to create the future we want. It would like to make right all our current challenging relationships, our financial issues, health issues and the woes of the planet.
When it feels out of control it works harder and harder in its attempts to wrest it back. It tries to make sense of things, have a plan, restore order until creates a whirlpool of thoughts that seem to suck us faster and faster into a spin. This can lead to feelings of unease and anxiety, panic attacks and even physical symptoms such as nausea, palpitations and tummy cramps.
Here is a meditation that will support you to practice surrendering to ‘not knowing’. It is a great exercise. When we achieve it we are open to explore whatever comes into our experience. We will be open to new opportunities, friendships, radical new ways of seeing things and different routes forward that we would never have noticed if we were focused on fiercely adhering to our fixed, safe path.
To close the course, there are suggestions for continuing your journey to greater emotional freedom, which will support you to become more connected, compassionate and considered.
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